For enrolling in health benefits (not Obamacare as it happens), managing my bank statement, etc, I use Internet Explorer. Not because I trust Microsoft, but because I know the provider is going to focus on making their application work correctly with IE. I don't want some subtle discrepancy in browser behavior to route my transaction to underspace.

If you customize the toolbar you can just get rid of the dedicated search box. The address bar also handles searches. I stick with Firefox due to some of the plugins, but I've made it look more like chrome

I was curious about Pale Moon, so I googled it. Turns out it's a Firefox build optimized for Windows. They disabled some stuff they didn't think most people would need and enabled compiler optimizations that might exclude some older machines. See technical details [palemoon.org].

While we are being nitpicky, AC didn't talk about a protocol. They wrote telnet as in "the client", not Telnet the protocol. A telnet client works fine to connect to and debug various services, I use it regularly with HTTP, SMTP, and IMAP.